Chapter 601: Liu Chongjing's case
According to the plan, there are currently two options, the first option is that after the Jin army begins to attack Zhao, Zhu Youneng will take the lead and send troops from Chenzhou to attack Kaifeng.
In this way, after the Liang army learned the news, it would definitely mobilize the troops stationed in Songzhou and Bozhou to intercept it, which gave Wu the opportunity to raid.
At that time, Li Chengding will lead 30,000 infantry stationed in Suzhou, and then add 3,000 cavalry stationed in Xuzhou to carry out a surprise attack, so as to achieve the goal of destroying the main force of the Liang army on the southern front in one fell swoop.
The second option is to dispatch the main force of the Wu army, first attract the attention of the Liang army stationed in Songzhou, Bozhou and other places, and then Zhu Youneng will carry out a surprise attack in the rear to achieve the goal of eliminating the main force of the Liang army.
However, relatively speaking, Yang Wu still couldn't trust Zhu Youneng's ability, so he still tended to use Zhu Youneng to attract the Liang army and use the Wu army to carry out the surprise attack.
As long as this goal is achieved, then there will be no obstacles to the northern expedition of Wu in the future, at most, it is to prevent the Liang army stationed on the front line of the Yellow River from moving south.
However, the Liang army stationed on the front line of the Yellow River still shouldered the heavy responsibility of resisting the Jin army, and they would not easily leave the defense line and go south.
When it really came to the point where it was necessary to use the army of the Yellow River defense line, the Liang State had already done a major thing, and at that time, the people were panicked and their morale was completely lost, how could they compete with the Wu army?
Therefore, the next large-scale northern expedition of the Wu army will inevitably be like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, sweeping the entire south, and even many cities that did not have many defenders in the first place are likely to fall from the wind.
Compared to fighting with the Liang army, I am afraid that how to accept these cities smoothly is what Yang Wu needs to worry about.
Of course, all this is just a plan at the moment, and it is impossible to predict how it will be implemented and how effective it will be.
After reading the whole plan, Li Chengding was a little puzzled and said: "King, since it is to use the Youzhen National Army stationed in Suzhou, then why not use Zhu Qianyou, the governor of the Youzhen National Army, to command and let the ministers command the implementation of the plan, isn't this ......?"
Yang Wu shook his head with a smile and said: "Zhu Qianyou's ability is very well understood, although he can't be said to be a mediocre general, his ability is not outstanding; Even if Zhu Youneng is the internal response, it is not easy to defeat the Liang army, at least Gu feels that it is a bit difficult to implement this plan with Zhu Qianyou's ability, and you must come. ”
Li Chengding suddenly felt a lot more pressure on his body, but he said without hesitation: "The minister must do his best to repay the king's trust." ”
"Well, the specific situation is still uncertain, but in two days, Gu will order you to be appointed as the governor of the Right Town Army, and you and Zhu Qianyou's positions will be reversed. If you have any useful generals in the original army, you can bring them up together, and the Lone Association will arrange to transfer them to the Youzhen National Army. Yang Wu nodded.
"Thank you, the king, there will be a chapter to explain to the king in detail when the minister returns." Li Chengding hurriedly replied.
In fact, the best choice is to directly transfer the Right Town National Army with Li Chengding's Left Tengxiang Army, which not only saves trouble, but also does not have the problem of running in up and down.
However, Zuo Tengxiang's army is the main force of the conquest overseas, for example, the army that recently conquered the Japanese state used the soldiers of Zuo Tengxiang's army, and there are still many soldiers stationed overseas, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to transfer back for a while.
Therefore, the only way to do this is to let Li Chengding and Zhu Qianyou switch to ensure that the troops are sufficient.
Then, Li Chengding asked again: "I don't know when the king thinks the Jin army will make a move?" ”
"It should be in July or August, right?" Yang Wu was also a little unsure, "It should take a certain amount of time for the Jin army to mobilize, and Li Cunqiao should not have completely made up his mind to do it yet." So it takes months to prepare. ”
At present, although Zhang Wenli secretly colludes with the Khitans and the Liang State, he is also constantly sending people to contact the King of Jin, hoping to be recognized by Li Cunxuan.
And Li Cunmiao considered that he was currently fighting with Liang Guo, so he might choose to hold back for the time being; Of course, it is certain that the two families will fall out in the end, and Li Cunqiao will inevitably use troops against Zhao State, which is only a matter of time.
After discussing military affairs for a while, Yang Wu saw that the time was not early, and immediately said: "My brother-in-law has just come back from overseas, and Gu recruited you into the palace, and you are tired when you think about it." If there is nothing else to do, then go back and rest. ”
"Yes, the minister will retire first." Of course, Li Chengding had nothing else to do, he immediately saluted Yang Wu and prepared to leave.
At this time, Yang Wu suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly reminded: "By the way, this matter must be kept secret, what should I do, I don't need to be reminded by Lonely, right?" ”
Li Chengding's heart was awe-inspiring, and he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the king will pay attention to confidentiality." ”
When it came to secrecy, Li Chengding's heart trembled.
Because of the secrecy, there was a tragedy in Wu Guo, which eventually led to the fall of countless people's heads, creating the first major case after Wu Guoguo.
At the beginning, Liu Chongjing secretly colluded with Gao Jichang's people and was promoted all the way with the help of Gao Jichang's strength, but this matter was extremely secretive, and not many people knew about it.
On Gao Jichang's side, after Jiangling was captured by Wu, the few people who knew about it fled to the northern Liang State with Gao Jichang; On Liu Chongjing's side, he didn't even know that it was Gao Jichang's people who contacted him, not the people of Liang Guo as expected.
In this way, after the defeat of Gao Jichang Jiangling, he did not realize his danger, but acted as usual, and Wu Guo's long sword was also unaware of the slightest problem.
After that, Liu Chongjing, with his military merits and the fact that he was originally Liu Wei's eldest son, soon went further from the position of commander and was promoted to commander of the capital.
In the eleventh year of Wuyi, that is, three years ago, when there was a fierce battle between the Liang and Jin states at Huliupo, the Wu state was also sending troops to attack the Shu state.
Because at that time, Wang Jian, the founding monarch of Shu State, had just died of illness, and the new monarch Zong Yan registered and changed his name to Wang Yan.
So at that time, Yang Wu ordered Liu Xin, who was still stationed in Jiangling at that time, to command 30,000 troops to attack Guizhou.
Just when the Wu army arrived in Guizhou and started a fierce battle with the Shu army, suddenly a Liang State person fled south to Wu State and revealed a top-secret news to Wu State.
It turned out that this person who fled south was a key person under Gao Jichang who was responsible for liaising with Liu Chongjing, and this person made a mistake under Gao Jichang and was worried about being severely punished, so he went south to take refuge in Wu State, bringing the news that Liu Chongjing had colluded with Gao Jichang, and also provided some key evidence.
At that time, Liu Chongjing, as the commander of Liu Xin's command, led an army of 10,000 to fight against the Shu army on the front line of Guizhou.
Yang Wu personally ordered to block all relevant news, and those who dared to leak secrets would not be spared.
At the same time, Yang Wu sent someone to confirm the accuracy of this news, and on the other hand, he sent someone to Liu Xin's military camp secretly, preparing to let Liu Xin secretly take measures, first, to prevent Liu Chongjing from jumping over the wall after learning the news, and second, once the news is confirmed, Liu Chongjing can be directly arrested.
However, what Yang Wu didn't expect was that before the envoy he sent arrived at the front line in Guizhou, the news had already been revealed, and the panicked Liu Chongjing immediately rebelled.
You must know that at that time, Liu Xinzheng led the army to fight with the Shu army, and at this critical time, Liu Chongjing suddenly counterattacked, even if only a few of his cronies led less than 2,000 people who really rebelled with him, and other more armies did not rebel, but this sudden rebellion still caused a great chaos in the Wu army.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Wu, the commander of the Shu army, immediately led the Shu army to raid and defeated the Wu army.
In the end of that battle, more than 7,000 soldiers were killed in the Wu army, and more than 5,000 people were captured.
The last time such a heavy defeat should have been when Liu Cun's army was defeated by Ma Yin.
Liu Chongjing also relied on this merit, and after fleeing to Shu, he was canonized as the Duke of Qi by the new monarch of Shu.
On the side of Wu Guo, Yang Wu ordered the Liu family to be raided on the one hand, and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter on the other hand, and all the people suspected of it, no matter how big the official position, were dealt with, and hundreds of people were killed alone, and tens of thousands of people were exiled overseas; As for the dismissal of officials, there are even more.
Of course, so many people have been disposed of, and naturally many of them have actually suffered unjustified disasters, and they are actually not involved in this matter, but Yang Wu took this opportunity to rectify the officialdom and sent them down.
In addition, there are some people who are even more unlucky, and they are completely angered by Yang Wu, such as Liu Chongjing's friend, Tao Ya's eldest son Tao Jingzhao, because he is friendly with Liu Chongjing, so this time he was angered by Yang Wu and was dismissed from office.
Fortunately, Tao Ya's merits are too great, even if Yang Wu took away Tao Jingzhao's title, he did not dare to remove the Tao family directly, but let Tao Jingzhao's second brother Tao Jingyan inherit the title.
As for the Liu family, at first, Yang Wu planned to exterminate the Liu family in anger, but later, under the intercession of the ministers, Yang Wu finally saw Liu Wei's merits and ordered the Liu family to be taken away and demoted to commoners; All those who had official status were dismissed, and most of their family property was confiscated, and then all of them were exiled to Yizhou.
Killing a group in this way, dismissing and dismissing a group, and exiled a group overseas, this is the Liu Chongjing case that happened in the 11th year of Wuyi.
After this case, the people of the DPRK and China will change color when they talk about the word "secrecy," and they will no longer dare to regard the law of the DPRK and China as child's play, and as long as Yang Wu orders it to be kept secret, they will not even dare to talk about it in private.